Nathan John Albury
Biographic Data
| ID | 749160 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nathan John Albury |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nathan John |
| FAMILY NAME | Albury |
| SIGNATURE | ALBURY N J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3471-4939 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Choosing between Cyrillic and Latin for linguistic citizenship in contemporary Serbia
Both the Cyrillic and Latin scripts are routinely used for writing in Serbian. In existing ideological discourses, using Cyrillic is associated by some with Serbian ethnic authenticity and loyalty to nationhood, but by others with conservatism, Russian-leaning politics and dangerous ethnonationalism. For some, using Latin is associated with cosmopolitanism and a western-leaning internationalisation, but for others with an assault on Serbian herit…
Linguistic landscape and metalinguistic talk about societal multilingualism
Linguistic landscapes have proven to be intriguing foci of sociolinguistic research in and of themselves, given language in public spaces indexes broader sociolinguistic processes, struggles, and policies. This paper, however, trials linguistic landscape as a methodological tool for research that solicits and analyses metalinguistic talk – encased by its sociocognitive dimensions – about societal multilingualism. Multilingual but ethnocratic Mala…
From perceptual dialectology to perceptual multilingualism: A Hong Kong case study
This paper proposes perceptual multilingualism as a research interest within the broader folk linguistic enterprise. By drawing on the geolinguistic mapping tasks popular in perceptual dialectology – whereby participants are asked to draw and depict dialectal diversity in a given region – we show that perceptual multilingualism can elicit knowledge and reasoning in the community about linguistic diversity more broadly. To do this, we analysed and…
Uma introdução sobre a linguística popular da política de línguas (An introduction to the popular linguistics of language policy)
Os indivíduos de uma comunidade de falantes se ocupam de política de línguas. Eles interpretam e aplicam saberes populares e crenças sobre linguagem para dar vida a políticas linguísticas, e até mesmo criam medidas para resolver dilemas locais da língua. Esses indivíduos são, de fato, linguistas populares. A linguística popular examina as várias formas como um povo, sem treinamento linguístico, desempenha a linguística como ciência. Porém, no cas…
Introduction: Reimagining language and belonging in the diaspora
This introductory piece outlines the lens adopted in this special issue, which foregrounds the examination of language and semiotics as a means of revisiting the concept of diaspora. Guided by posthumanist applied linguistics,the papers here envision human experiences as more complex than critical social theory may suggest; moreover, grass-roots agency–a focus that may be inadvertently overlooked in work that adopts a solely critical perspective–…
Language policy, ideological clarification and theory of mind
This interdisciplinary paper shows that investigating community language beliefs, as a pillar of language policy research, can be enriched by the principles of theory of mind. The case study is Malaysia where ethnonationalist law and policy elevates the language and culture of the Muslim Malay majority above those of citizens of Chinese and Indian ethnicity, but where a seismic political shift is underway. The re-election of Dr Mahathir Mohammad …
Beyond economy and culture: Language-in-education preferences of Malaysian youth
This paper revisits the tension in sociolinguistics between the linguistic capital associated with languages of socioeconomic mobility, and the cultural and identity value of local languages. With Malaysia as a case study, the paper shows that although this economy-versus-culture tension may be a go-to ideological paradigm in sociolinguistics for exploring and analyzing ideologies and beliefs vis-à-vis- language acquisition and language policy, i…
If We Lose Their Language We Lose Our History”: Knowledge and Disposition in Māori Language Acquisition Policy
Localising knowledge and dispositions helps to predict the likely success of top-down language policies. In so far as language acquisition is a pillar of language revitalisation policy, then community perspectives on learning a minority language deserve attention. This article presents the knowledge, dispositions, and ideas of around 1,300 indigenous and non-indigenous university students in New Zealand about learning te reo Māori as public polic…
Between public perception and government intent in national language policy
This paper analyses divergence between national language policy on the one hand, and perceptions of it on the other. In ethnocratic Malaysia, language policy codifies the supremacy of Bahasa Malaysia as part of a broader ethnonationalist policy agenda that pedestalises the ethnic Malays and curtails the rights of Chinese and Indian-Malaysians. A series of 25 folk linguistic group discussions was held with Malay, Chinese, and Indian youth who defi…
Forging and negating diasporic linguistic citizenship in ethnocratic Malaysia
An unrealistic expectation: Māori youth on indigenous language purism
Linguistic purism can play an especially political role in legitimising and authenticating indigenous identities. For languages now undergoing revitalisation after histories of colonial conquest, purism that precludes foreign influences in language corpora and behaviour can be seen as reversing the impacts of language contact and reasserting indigeneity. This is indeed the case for te reo Māori, the indigenous language of New Zealand, that was su…
A typology of arguments for and against bilingual place-naming in Aotearoa New Zealand
Naming places is theorised as an activity in heritage whereby a name will index a people’s narrative and history. In postcolonial societies where the colonised and the colonisers share spaces, individual locations can host different sides of history and different cultural significance. To this end, the New Zealand government has pursued bilingual place-naming policy to reflect the heritage of both Māori as the Indigenous people, and Pākehā as the…
How folk linguistic methods can support critical sociolinguistics
Mother tongues and languaging in Malaysia: Critical linguistics under critical examination
This article brings the critical turn in linguistics-with its current scepticism towards essentialised languages and bias forlanguaging-under critical evaluation. It does so by bringing it face-to-face with thelocal-knowledge turnin sociolinguistics that investigates local knowledge and local epistemologies, held by language users themselves, to understand sociolinguistic phenomena. This article analyses whether and how the epistemologies inheren…
Malaysia’s National Language Policy in International Theoretical Context
This paper examines the motivations behind Malaysia’s national language policy in theoretical terms to allow the Malaysian narrative to be positioned in an international context. To do this, it applies Spolsky’s (2004) theory of what influences language policy making in contemporary nation-states, namely national ideology, the role of English in globalisation era, the nation’s sociolinguistic situation, and an interest in linguistic minority righ…
The power of folk linguistic knowledge in language policy
An old problem with new directions: Māori language revitalisation and the policy ideas of youth
Legislative changes are afoot in New Zealand that are formalising an ideological shift in policy that decreasingly positions the Māori language a matter of interethnic national identity but increasingly as one for Māori self-determination. The Waitangi Tribunal (WAI262, Waitangi Tribunal, 2011) established that, from here on, Māori language policy should be determined in large measure by Māori ideas. This paper advances the question of what these…
Defining Māori language revitalisation: A project in folk linguistics
The postmodern and critical movements in language policy, with their redefinition of governmentality and attention to power structures, call for localised perspectives on language arrangements. In this way, a polity, in its social and cultural context, can be understood as much as the policies it operates. In the case of Indigenous languages undergoing revitalisation, this allows us to define language revitalisation, and the vitality it should de…
Objectives at the crossroads: Critical theory and self-determination in indigenous language revitalization
Indigenous language revitalization is a popular focus of critical theorists. From the perspective of sociolinguists, critical theory interrogates language policies to name and shame inequalities and propose solutions to correct injustices and emancipate the disadvantaged. From a broader perspective, language revitalization policy also resides within national and international political agendas for the restoration of indigenous self-determination,…
Collective (white) memories of Māori language loss (or not)
Language policies have a better chance of succeeding if they align with the persuasions of the polity, and this is only more pronounced in the case of endangered languages, such as Te Reo (the Māori language) in New Zealand. There, a comprehensive suite of laws, policies, and programmes are in place to acknowledge and reverse the linguistic consequences of British colonisation and previous laws of linguistic assimilation. However, this history an…
National language policy theory: Exploring Spolsky’s model in the case of Iceland
Your language or ours? Inclusion and exclusion of non-indigenous majorities in Māori and Sámi language revitalization policy
Since the second half of the twentieth century, post-colonial governments have commonly sought to revitalize the indigenous languages their imperialist predecessors hoped to eradicate. Although the impetus to revitalize is shared, the question of excluding or including the non-indigenous majority in the revitalization process, and encouraging them to become new speakers of the language, is a matter of politics and ideology. This paper draws on ne…
Defining Māori language revitalisation: A project in folk linguistics
The postmodern and critical movements in language policy, with their redefinition of governmentality and attention to power structures, call for localised perspectives on language arrangements. In this way, a polity, in its social and cultural context, can be understood as much as the policies it operates. In the case of Indigenous languages undergoing revitalisation, this allows us to define language revitalisation, and the vitality it should de…
Your language or ours? Inclusion and exclusion of non-indigenous majorities in Māori and Sámi language revitalization policy
Since the second half of the twentieth century, post-colonial governments have commonly sought to revitalize the indigenous languages their imperialist predecessors hoped to eradicate. Although the impetus to revitalize is shared, the question of excluding or including the non-indigenous majority in the revitalization process, and encouraging them to become new speakers of the language, is a matter of politics and ideology. This paper draws on ne…
How folk linguistic methods can support critical sociolinguistics
Mother tongues and languaging in Malaysia: Critical linguistics under critical examination
This article brings the critical turn in linguistics-with its current scepticism towards essentialised languages and bias forlanguaging-under critical evaluation. It does so by bringing it face-to-face with thelocal-knowledge turnin sociolinguistics that investigates local knowledge and local epistemologies, held by language users themselves, to understand sociolinguistic phenomena. This article analyses whether and how the epistemologies inheren…
National language policy theory: Exploring Spolsky’s model in the case of Iceland
Between public perception and government intent in national language policy
This paper analyses divergence between national language policy on the one hand, and perceptions of it on the other. In ethnocratic Malaysia, language policy codifies the supremacy of Bahasa Malaysia as part of a broader ethnonationalist policy agenda that pedestalises the ethnic Malays and curtails the rights of Chinese and Indian-Malaysians. A series of 25 folk linguistic group discussions was held with Malay, Chinese, and Indian youth who defi…
The power of folk linguistic knowledge in language policy
An old problem with new directions: Māori language revitalisation and the policy ideas of youth
Legislative changes are afoot in New Zealand that are formalising an ideological shift in policy that decreasingly positions the Māori language a matter of interethnic national identity but increasingly as one for Māori self-determination. The Waitangi Tribunal (WAI262, Waitangi Tribunal, 2011) established that, from here on, Māori language policy should be determined in large measure by Māori ideas. This paper advances the question of what these…
Introduction: Reimagining language and belonging in the diaspora
This introductory piece outlines the lens adopted in this special issue, which foregrounds the examination of language and semiotics as a means of revisiting the concept of diaspora. Guided by posthumanist applied linguistics,the papers here envision human experiences as more complex than critical social theory may suggest; moreover, grass-roots agency–a focus that may be inadvertently overlooked in work that adopts a solely critical perspective–…
Beyond economy and culture: Language-in-education preferences of Malaysian youth
This paper revisits the tension in sociolinguistics between the linguistic capital associated with languages of socioeconomic mobility, and the cultural and identity value of local languages. With Malaysia as a case study, the paper shows that although this economy-versus-culture tension may be a go-to ideological paradigm in sociolinguistics for exploring and analyzing ideologies and beliefs vis-à-vis- language acquisition and language policy, i…
Forging and negating diasporic linguistic citizenship in ethnocratic Malaysia
If We Lose Their Language We Lose Our History”: Knowledge and Disposition in Māori Language Acquisition Policy
Localising knowledge and dispositions helps to predict the likely success of top-down language policies. In so far as language acquisition is a pillar of language revitalisation policy, then community perspectives on learning a minority language deserve attention. This article presents the knowledge, dispositions, and ideas of around 1,300 indigenous and non-indigenous university students in New Zealand about learning te reo Māori as public polic…
An unrealistic expectation: Māori youth on indigenous language purism
Linguistic purism can play an especially political role in legitimising and authenticating indigenous identities. For languages now undergoing revitalisation after histories of colonial conquest, purism that precludes foreign influences in language corpora and behaviour can be seen as reversing the impacts of language contact and reasserting indigeneity. This is indeed the case for te reo Māori, the indigenous language of New Zealand, that was su…
A typology of arguments for and against bilingual place-naming in Aotearoa New Zealand
Naming places is theorised as an activity in heritage whereby a name will index a people’s narrative and history. In postcolonial societies where the colonised and the colonisers share spaces, individual locations can host different sides of history and different cultural significance. To this end, the New Zealand government has pursued bilingual place-naming policy to reflect the heritage of both Māori as the Indigenous people, and Pākehā as the…
Your language or ours? Inclusion and exclusion of non-indigenous majorities in Māori and Sámi language revitalization policy
Since the second half of the twentieth century, post-colonial governments have commonly sought to revitalize the indigenous languages their imperialist predecessors hoped to eradicate. Although the impetus to revitalize is shared, the question of excluding or including the non-indigenous majority in the revitalization process, and encouraging them to become new speakers of the language, is a matter of politics and ideology. This paper draws on ne…
Objectives at the crossroads: Critical theory and self-determination in indigenous language revitalization
Indigenous language revitalization is a popular focus of critical theorists. From the perspective of sociolinguists, critical theory interrogates language policies to name and shame inequalities and propose solutions to correct injustices and emancipate the disadvantaged. From a broader perspective, language revitalization policy also resides within national and international political agendas for the restoration of indigenous self-determination,…
Collective (white) memories of Māori language loss (or not)
Language policies have a better chance of succeeding if they align with the persuasions of the polity, and this is only more pronounced in the case of endangered languages, such as Te Reo (the Māori language) in New Zealand. There, a comprehensive suite of laws, policies, and programmes are in place to acknowledge and reverse the linguistic consequences of British colonisation and previous laws of linguistic assimilation. However, this history an…
National language policy theory: Exploring Spolsky’s model in the case of Iceland
Malaysia’s National Language Policy in International Theoretical Context
This paper examines the motivations behind Malaysia’s national language policy in theoretical terms to allow the Malaysian narrative to be positioned in an international context. To do this, it applies Spolsky’s (2004) theory of what influences language policy making in contemporary nation-states, namely national ideology, the role of English in globalisation era, the nation’s sociolinguistic situation, and an interest in linguistic minority righ…
The power of folk linguistic knowledge in language policy
An old problem with new directions: Māori language revitalisation and the policy ideas of youth
Legislative changes are afoot in New Zealand that are formalising an ideological shift in policy that decreasingly positions the Māori language a matter of interethnic national identity but increasingly as one for Māori self-determination. The Waitangi Tribunal (WAI262, Waitangi Tribunal, 2011) established that, from here on, Māori language policy should be determined in large measure by Māori ideas. This paper advances the question of what these…
Defining Māori language revitalisation: A project in folk linguistics
The postmodern and critical movements in language policy, with their redefinition of governmentality and attention to power structures, call for localised perspectives on language arrangements. In this way, a polity, in its social and cultural context, can be understood as much as the policies it operates. In the case of Indigenous languages undergoing revitalisation, this allows us to define language revitalisation, and the vitality it should de…
A typology of arguments for and against bilingual place-naming in Aotearoa New Zealand
Naming places is theorised as an activity in heritage whereby a name will index a people’s narrative and history. In postcolonial societies where the colonised and the colonisers share spaces, individual locations can host different sides of history and different cultural significance. To this end, the New Zealand government has pursued bilingual place-naming policy to reflect the heritage of both Māori as the Indigenous people, and Pākehā as the…
How folk linguistic methods can support critical sociolinguistics
Mother tongues and languaging in Malaysia: Critical linguistics under critical examination
This article brings the critical turn in linguistics-with its current scepticism towards essentialised languages and bias forlanguaging-under critical evaluation. It does so by bringing it face-to-face with thelocal-knowledge turnin sociolinguistics that investigates local knowledge and local epistemologies, held by language users themselves, to understand sociolinguistic phenomena. This article analyses whether and how the epistemologies inheren…
If We Lose Their Language We Lose Our History”: Knowledge and Disposition in Māori Language Acquisition Policy
Localising knowledge and dispositions helps to predict the likely success of top-down language policies. In so far as language acquisition is a pillar of language revitalisation policy, then community perspectives on learning a minority language deserve attention. This article presents the knowledge, dispositions, and ideas of around 1,300 indigenous and non-indigenous university students in New Zealand about learning te reo Māori as public polic…
Between public perception and government intent in national language policy
This paper analyses divergence between national language policy on the one hand, and perceptions of it on the other. In ethnocratic Malaysia, language policy codifies the supremacy of Bahasa Malaysia as part of a broader ethnonationalist policy agenda that pedestalises the ethnic Malays and curtails the rights of Chinese and Indian-Malaysians. A series of 25 folk linguistic group discussions was held with Malay, Chinese, and Indian youth who defi…
Forging and negating diasporic linguistic citizenship in ethnocratic Malaysia
An unrealistic expectation: Māori youth on indigenous language purism
Linguistic purism can play an especially political role in legitimising and authenticating indigenous identities. For languages now undergoing revitalisation after histories of colonial conquest, purism that precludes foreign influences in language corpora and behaviour can be seen as reversing the impacts of language contact and reasserting indigeneity. This is indeed the case for te reo Māori, the indigenous language of New Zealand, that was su…
Beyond economy and culture: Language-in-education preferences of Malaysian youth
This paper revisits the tension in sociolinguistics between the linguistic capital associated with languages of socioeconomic mobility, and the cultural and identity value of local languages. With Malaysia as a case study, the paper shows that although this economy-versus-culture tension may be a go-to ideological paradigm in sociolinguistics for exploring and analyzing ideologies and beliefs vis-à-vis- language acquisition and language policy, i…
Language policy, ideological clarification and theory of mind
This interdisciplinary paper shows that investigating community language beliefs, as a pillar of language policy research, can be enriched by the principles of theory of mind. The case study is Malaysia where ethnonationalist law and policy elevates the language and culture of the Muslim Malay majority above those of citizens of Chinese and Indian ethnicity, but where a seismic political shift is underway. The re-election of Dr Mahathir Mohammad …
Linguistic landscape and metalinguistic talk about societal multilingualism
Linguistic landscapes have proven to be intriguing foci of sociolinguistic research in and of themselves, given language in public spaces indexes broader sociolinguistic processes, struggles, and policies. This paper, however, trials linguistic landscape as a methodological tool for research that solicits and analyses metalinguistic talk – encased by its sociocognitive dimensions – about societal multilingualism. Multilingual but ethnocratic Mala…
From perceptual dialectology to perceptual multilingualism: A Hong Kong case study
This paper proposes perceptual multilingualism as a research interest within the broader folk linguistic enterprise. By drawing on the geolinguistic mapping tasks popular in perceptual dialectology – whereby participants are asked to draw and depict dialectal diversity in a given region – we show that perceptual multilingualism can elicit knowledge and reasoning in the community about linguistic diversity more broadly. To do this, we analysed and…
Uma introdução sobre a linguística popular da política de línguas (An introduction to the popular linguistics of language policy)
Os indivíduos de uma comunidade de falantes se ocupam de política de línguas. Eles interpretam e aplicam saberes populares e crenças sobre linguagem para dar vida a políticas linguísticas, e até mesmo criam medidas para resolver dilemas locais da língua. Esses indivíduos são, de fato, linguistas populares. A linguística popular examina as várias formas como um povo, sem treinamento linguístico, desempenha a linguística como ciência. Porém, no cas…
Introduction: Reimagining language and belonging in the diaspora
This introductory piece outlines the lens adopted in this special issue, which foregrounds the examination of language and semiotics as a means of revisiting the concept of diaspora. Guided by posthumanist applied linguistics,the papers here envision human experiences as more complex than critical social theory may suggest; moreover, grass-roots agency–a focus that may be inadvertently overlooked in work that adopts a solely critical perspective–…
Choosing between Cyrillic and Latin for linguistic citizenship in contemporary Serbia
Both the Cyrillic and Latin scripts are routinely used for writing in Serbian. In existing ideological discourses, using Cyrillic is associated by some with Serbian ethnic authenticity and loyalty to nationhood, but by others with conservatism, Russian-leaning politics and dangerous ethnonationalism. For some, using Latin is associated with cosmopolitanism and a western-leaning internationalisation, but for others with an assault on Serbian herit…
Linguistics (21 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (21 works) · Sociology (21 works) · Political science (17 works) · Pedagogy (12 works) · Language policy (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (9 works)